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• Report on the World Social Situation 2007: The Employment Imperative

  11 December 2007, by United Nations
  The report forms part of series of reports on the subject. Different aspects of global employment and work (such as global employment and unemployment trends, unemployment and labour-market insecurity), the impact of global economic and social liberalization, social groups in the labour force, inequalities and decent work are among the topics discussed in the report.

• UN declares 20 February as World Day of Social Justice

  11 December 2007, by United Nations
  Recognizing the need to promote efforts to tackle issues such as poverty, exclusion and unemployment, the United Nations General Assembly has decided to observe 20 February annually – starting in 2009 – as the World Day of Social Justice. … In designating the World Day, the Assembly «recognizes the need to consolidate further the efforts of the international community in poverty eradication and in promoting full employment and decent work, gender equality and access to social well-being and justice for all.

• German coalition parties prevent parliamentary scrutiny over new security measures

  3 December 2007, by Challenge
  Opposition parties in the German Bundestag complained that the ruling coalition parties SPD and CDU effectively circumvented parliamentary scrutiny in the adoption of an amendment to the German Federal Police Act extending the storage time of video surveillance material from 48 hours to thirty days. The amendment is part of the German implementing act of the US-EU PNR agreement. Following media reports, the crucial amendment was circulated to Parliamentarians late in the evening by fax.

• Resolution of the 10th Synod of the Protestant Church in Germany at its 6th meeting on Refugee Protection in Europe

  3 December 2007, by Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland - EKD
  The Synod follows the development at the external Southern sea borders of the European Union in the Mediterranean with huge concern. Many persons fleeing persecution or economic crisis drown during their attempt to reach European soil. This dramatic situation requires common action of all European Union member states and may not be put on the Mediterranean neighbouring states alone.

• Report of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism - MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

  3 December 2007, by Scheinin Martin
  The Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism, Martin Scheinin, visited the United States of America from 16 to 25 May 2007, during which he met with senior officials of the Government, members of Congress and their staff, academics and non-governmental organizations, as well as with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. The objective of the visit was to undertake a fact-finding exercise and a legal assessment of United States law and practice in the fight against terrorism, measured against international law. His visit also aimed at identifying and disseminating best practice in the countering of terrorism.

• ’Ethnic’ statistics and data protection in the Council of Europe countries : Study report

  28 November 2007, by Simon Patrick
  ECRI published this study following its consultations with international non-governmental organisations and national specialised bodies to combat racism and racial discrimination on the issue of ethnic data collection. The study offers an overview on the legal and practical framework for ethnic data collection in the Member States of the Council of Europe. It includes case studies on the collection of these «sensitive» data in France, Hungary Germany and United Kingdom.

• Seminar : Antiterrorism, Risk and Intelligence-led Logics

  27 November 2007, by Challenge French Team
  The research group on « Mapping the Field of Security in Europe » invites you to the Challenge-COST Joint Seminar: Antiterrorism, Risk and Intelligence-led Logics

• National Minorities in the United Kingdom

  20 November 2007, by Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities
  The Opinion of the Advisory Committee on the Framework Convention for the Protection of National Minorities on the United Kingdom has just been made public together with the government’s comments

• UN expert warns that racism is increasingly manifest as violence

  19 November 2007, by United Nations
  Doudou Diene, the Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance presented his latest report to the United Nations General Assembly’s Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee. He warned about a «resurgence of racist and xenophobic violence, in particular its most serious expression a shift from words to action». He spoke also about the «political normalization and democratic legitimization of racism and xenophobia» that is another manifestation of the retreat in the struggle against racism and xenophobia.

• Data Protection in the EU’s Internal Security Cooperation – Fundamental Rights vs. Effective Cooperation?

  19 November 2007, by McGinley Marie, Parkes Roderick
  European home affairs cooperation has often been characterised by the disinclination of national security officials to submit themselves to robust common rules, institutions and human rights standards. Cooperation has frequently occurred outside the formal framework of the European Union (EU) at a more informal and ad-hoc level. Even within the EU framework, rights standards as well as judicial and parliamentary oversight remain patchy.

• Class-action law suit against data retention planned in Germany

  19 November 2007, by Challenge
  After implementing legislation of the EU data retention directive has passed German Parliament on 9.11.2007, a mass class-action challenging this act before the German Constitutional Court is currently under preparation. In a press release of the German privacy NGO Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung it is stated that until 16.11.2007 already 13.000 citizens have joined this class-action which is unprecedented in German constitutional law.

• Grand Chamber Judgement D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic

  19 November 2007, by European Court of Human Rights
  On 13.11.2007 the European Court of Human Rights delivered its judgment in the case of D.H. and Others v. the Czech Republic. The Court held that the applicant Roma children, by being placed in special schools, were discriminated in the enjoyment of their right to education. (There had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) of the European Convention on Human Rights read in conjunction with Article 2 of Protocol No. 1 (right to education)). «Since it had been established that the relevant Czech legislation at the relevant time had had a disproportionately prejudicial effect on the Roma community, the applicants as members of that community had necessarily suffered the same discriminatory treatment.»

• ECRI’s Round Table in Ireland

  13 November 2007, by Commission européenne contre le racisme et l’intolérance du Conseil de l’Europe
  ECRI, following the publication of its third monitoring report on Ireland, organizes the Round Table in Ireland in the framework of its Programme of action on relations with civil society. The Round Table will be held on 15 November 2007 in Dublin. The main themes of the round table are ECRI’s report on Ireland, promoting equality and diversity in the workplace, safeguarding the rights of the traveller community under the Framework Convention for the protection of national minorities and building an integrated society in Ireland.

• Les ’’listes noires’’ de l’ONU et de l’UE jugées arbitraires par une commission de l’Assemblée

  13 novembre 2007, par Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
  Les procédures employées par les Nations Unies et l’UE concernant les personnes et groupes soupçonnés de terrorisme ont été jugées ’’totalement arbitraires et sans crédibilité aucune’’ par la Commission des questions juridiques de l’Assemblée parlementaire, lors d’une réunion à Paris le 12 novembre. Le rapport de Dick Marty sur cette question a été approuvé par la Commission.

• Provisional draft report on UN Security Council and European Union blacklists

  13 November 2007, by Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights
  The procedures used by the UN Security Council and the European Union for blacklisting individuals and groups suspected of links with terrorists were judged to be ’’totally arbitrary and have no credibility whatsoever’’, by the Legal Affairs Committee of the Parliamentary Assembly, during a meeting in Paris on 12 November. Dick Marty’s report on this matter was approved by the Commttee.

• East London Muslims Caged Guantanamo-Style

  13 November 2007, by The Muslim Weekly
  Two British Muslims are being locked-up in a cage, chained and hooded for 6 days and nights without basic amenities and comfort in a busy traffic junction corner on the Whitechapel Road (East London). Hidden Detainees, the organisers behind the event, hope to recreate the barbaric conditions of the Guantanamo Bay (Camp X-Ray) camp in Cuba, where over 775 suspects from around the world were illegally held as part of America’s ‘War on Terror’.

• A FRA youth event «Diversity day» on 14 November 2007

  5 November 2007, by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
  Equality, non-discrimination and anti-racism are the themes at Diversity Day, a youth event organised on 14 November 2007 in Vienna. Under the theme «chancen=gleich», Diversity Day seeks to make young people aware of the objectives of the 2007 European Year of Equal Opportunities for All. The event is open to the public and will gather around 1,500 young people from Vienna and neighbouring Hungarian towns.

• Devant la commission des lois, le président de la CNIL Alex Türk se montre préoccupé par l’évolution des pratiques sécuritaires et technologiques

  30 octobre 2007, par Sénat
  Entendu par la commission des Lois du Sénat, présidée par M. Jean-Jacques Hyest (UMP, Seine-et-Marne), M. Alex Türk, président de la Commission nationale informatique et libertés (CNIL), a souligné les risques au regard des libertés individuelles des évolutions en cours dans les pratiques sécuritaires et technologiques.

• FRA’s European Round Table Conference (ERTC) on 29-30 October

  29 October 2007, by European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights
  «FRA organises the European Round Table Conference (ERTC) on 29-30 October in Lisbon to bring together key stakeholders to discuss Equal access to education and employment for youth with migrant background. The participants will come from governments, local authorities, academics, civil society, international and regional organisations and European institutions.

• Governments should Take Positive Steps to Protect Housing Rights of Roma in Europe, UN and Council of Europe Experts Say

  29 October 2007, by United Nations
  The Council of Europe’s Commissioner for Human Rights, Thomas Hammarberg and the Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing of the United Nations Human Rights Council, Miloon Kothari in their press release from 24 October 2007 stated that the housing rights of Roma are violated in several countries of Europe. The "rate and number of forced evictions of Roma have grown dramatically, and segregation and ghettoization in the housing field appears to have intensified and become entrenched in recent years". The experts called on the governments to take positive measures in order to protect the housing rights of Roma in Europe.

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